Chapter 36 – Page 22

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Snake, Mouse, Fish, Bird. *beep* *beep* The sacrifice you have dialed is no longer in use. Please try a different sacrifice or dial, Virgin, Virgin, Virgin to contact your local antediluvian god-entity.

I have to wonder where they keep getting all these cultists. It seems unlikely that there’d be THAT many people who so earnestly wish the end of themselves and all life in the world. Is there some sort of bargain-bin catalog where you can hire generic mooks for you to mold into the minions of the dastardly plot of your choice?

Hey, if I was a new player in some big fantasy mmo, I’d totally join them cause’ it meant (presumably) free robes and a nifty little dagger, plus a bunch of cool spells. A lot of them are probably new players who want all these things, or it could just be npcs.

You didn´t read your instructions, brother. Yours is `distraction group one`.
No seriously.
Did you really think you can summon a demon-ridden adventurer with a bag of dead rodents ?
You can call yourselves lucky you managed to summon a live one.

Well, the success of a cult leader has never required the survival of the cult minions (even true in real life, sadly…).
So for all we know, wholesome slaughter of the lesser members of the cult is part of the plan and yes, it’s working out great so far…

realy depends on wath you understand under cult you seem to go for the littl (unaccredited maybe) religous group insted of a group under a religious or otherwise “one truth worldview concept”(say alien based cults?) premise that institute a social dependence upon their members to achive money,further ones ego, to fullfill ones delusion

but the second one offcourse could be just the nowadays vibe ppl like to conect to the term so dunno

also my english is rather mehh in gremmer and stuff as its just a secondery thing so exuse me if it sounds some wath offbeat and weird and maybe some words are used inacurate o-o

also spelling is a mix of random kay smashing and wath i might fell its supposed to sound o-o

Okay. Lesson time, I guess. Here we go, cultus deorum. It means Cultivation Of The Gods (Or Divine). This is where the term cult comes from, and is how religion was originally referred to. This was eventually shortened, into the term cult, in 1617, and also shared in common the french Culte, which basically meant “Worship”. A cult is basically a religion that has a heavy focus on ritual, ceremony, and the specification of places of worship. Expanding further, cults are any religion that is not the accepted religion of the majority. In Roman Catholicism, Cultus is the devotion or worship given towards specific saints (Such as Saint Mary). In Eastern Orthodox, or Catholicism, These worships are separated into Latria, the veneration given to God, and Dulia, that given to Saints.

What does this mean? The short and dirty of it is this:

All religions start out as “cults” under new-age definitions, until they become a majority religion. When the Pantheon was worshiped, Catholicism was a cult. When Catholicism took hold, Christianity was a cult, under this term.

Under old definitions, every religion that has either a place of worship, or ascribes to specific rituals, is a cult. This means Judaism, Scientology, Catholicism, etc.

Fun fact here, Just going to add this in, it’s not particularly relevant to the topic at hand, but it’s slightly related, and is something that is commonly misunderstood. Satan is not Lucifer, but the Archangel Samael. Samael was “The adversary of man”, he was the Right Hand Man of Yahweh (God). Like a barrel tester, who must make sure the barrel can hold liquid and is not shoddy, it was his job to test man’s soul, to see if he was fit for Heaven, hoping that they would pass, but expecting them to fail. When the Heavenly Host rebelled, with Lucifer at the lead, Yahweh required a Warden to keep them trapped in Hell (Literally “The Bowels Of The Earth”). Samael volunteered at Yahweh’s beset, and willingly fell, becoming Satan. Now, how is this relevant? Well, most of this comes from very, very old versions of the bible, and Judaism… because Catholicism started out as a branch of Judaism.

Judaism also pretty much invented modern chemistry. They called it Alchemy, but it was pretty much chemistry.

Why do I know all this stuff? Simple. I used to be a hardcore Catholic when I was much, much younger. This led to me reading everything related to the bible, and everything related to Catholicism front to back, cover to cover, inside and outside of the lines. Which led to me studying Judaism, because it’s a lot like Americans studying the pilgrims and why they left England. At one point, I really had a dream to head to the Vatican and attempt to become clergy. Eventually, however, I decided that the religion wasn’t for me, after I had studied so much of it. This simply means that I have a very strong understanding of the religion, despite not practicing it. Eventually, I moved on to studying other religions as well, and I’m very happy with that decision, because it gives me a much better view of our world, and the people in it.

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